Governments Look to End Child Labor in West African Cocoa Farming
Printer-friendly version Date of publication: October 7, 2010
Source: VOA News
Author: Drew Hinshaw
By Drew Hinshaw
...Bama Athreya, executive director for the International Labor Rights Forum, says the U.S.-Ghana-Ivory Coast partnership is one of many signs of the growing political will to address the problem.
But she says more needs to be done by major cocoa purchasing corporations that often turn a blind eye to child labor.
"There's been a real unwillingness to act that I think is driven by the business proposition of getting cheap child labor to produce the cocoa for quite some time," she said. "And that is a major challenge."...
"We need some fundamental reforms, frankly, in the cocoa industry, in the cocoa supply chain that creates some more transparency, that make it very clear where the revenue is going, that ensure that more revenue remains in country, and that ensures that that revenue is actually spent appropriately," she said...
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